Positioning Problem under IE 5.1+ for MacOS 9

Poster: plasticmask_ii
Dated: Friday December 17 2004 - 14:38:58 GMT

The milonic menus we have installed on the website http://cms.laser-line.de/online_shop/ don't work properly under IE 5.1.7 for MacOS 9.
We have installed the menus and we have revealed, that the menus properly work under all browsers, but not under IE 5.1.7.

You can test it yourself: just load http://cms.laser-line.de/online_shop/ under IE 5.1.7 and go with the mouse over the submenus like "Alle Produkte", "Specials" etc.
You will see, that rolldowns appear correctly. But if you will move your mouse in other direction (for example to the top menus, or to the main content), you will see, that the Menus jump downwards and appear somewhere on the center of the page. After that they disappear.

We have test all possible variations of menu integration - this bug exists always.

Could someone please check this issue? IT IS REALLY VERY IMPORTANT FOR US! Thanks in advance.

Poster: tootricky
Dated: Friday December 17 2004 - 15:57:43 GMT

IE 5 for Mac OS 9 is probably the worst broswer ever! I don't understand why you are so bothered though, since Apple stopped developing for Mac OS 9 over two years ago... Apple Mac is a small part of the computer market and any computers running OS 9 will be an even smaller minority.

I AM a Mac user, who designs sites on Macs and I don't bother with IE 5 on Mac OS 9. I doubt Milonic could ever make the menu work on it properly!

Poster: plasticmask_ii
Dated: Friday December 17 2004 - 20:49:13 GMT

Our problem is, that we have developed the website for one of our customers in Berlin. It is the large print office company, 95% of their IT hardware consists of Macs. They have this strict requirement: Rolldown Menus should properly work under IE 5.1.7 for MacOS 9. We have chosen Milonic solution because of its excellent reputation on the market of dhtml menus. Moreover, on milonic website is stated, that all menus properly work under IE 5.1+ for Mac OS9.

We don't want to be disappointed in this way.

We hope, somebody of Milonic Support Team, or maybe someone from milonic users community could help us in solving this issue. Thanx.

Poster: John
Dated: Friday December 17 2004 - 21:23:46 GMT

Sorry, but I don't have that browser installed. Hopefully one of the other folks can take a look for you.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday December 19 2004 - 3:37:25 GMT

I don't understand what you mean about mousing over content or the top menu. Your main menu is the one that says Alle Produkte;Specials;Offsetdruck;Digitaldruck;24h-Service;mehr...

Anyway, you have the menu in a table, and it seems to you put the whole menu in the table inside the script tags and only put the style into the menu_data.js file. That file also has the drawmenus(); blocked out with //. I don't know if that's the problem, but you might check the information HERE for putting the menu in a table. I believe it says to keep the submenus in the menu_data.js file and put the main-menu into the table cell. Also, you have that table inside a div and the menu does not like being in a div, so that may also be causing the problem.

Sorry I do not have a Mac, so I can only give you some suggestions to try.

Ruth

Poster: tepidarium
Dated: Sunday December 19 2004 - 6:35:38 GMT

Mac IE 5 has positiomning problems.

Did you see this on the milonic FAQ? :

http://www.milonic.com/menufaq.php#mactrouble

Poster: Andy
Dated: Monday December 20 2004 - 9:38:45 GMT

Just to recap on Ruth's theory - The problem is a missing drawMenus() command and this needs to go in with the menus just before the <DIV></DIV> in your HTML.

What's happening is all of your menus are being defined but not being built until you are inside the table cell. With IE on the Mac this will build all of the menus inside the table cell and thus give them the wrong top and left offsets. This is why the menu moves about when it really shouldn't.

It's odd though that it seems to work on IE5.2 but not on IE5.1.

Anyway, adding the drawMenus() command will fix the problem

Cheers
Andy